elaqure

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AKA Elaqure. By day, I'm an oilfield chemist/engineer. By night, I'm a gamer and science fiction writer. Recently, I've combined these two interests and started writing about games! You can occasionally find me on social media, but I've yet to master the art of consistency there.

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Fallout 76 has been a hot topic since Bethesda announced it at E3 in June. While many people love the idea of a multiplayer Fallout game, just as many hate it, and the court of public opinion is ablaze with…

Today was supposed to be the first day of the Fallout 76 B.E.T.A on PC, but many are having issues. Shortly after the beta went live, many found that they were being forced to re-download a game they had preloaded…

Some of the biggest issues plaguing game development today have to do with content and general design. Often, studios and publishers set out to make something wonderful, but get bogged down in the minutia of creation, so much so that…

A group of bandits runs down the hill towards my farm. Theyâ€™re hungry, likely havenâ€™t eaten for days, and what meager crop Iâ€™ve managed to cultivate out in the desert seems a feast to the haggard handful. So, they descend…

Header art by Empanada. It’s been a few years since Nintendo has decided to eschew a traditional press conference at E3 in favor of a pre-recorded mashup. The beauty of this formula is that all of the extra fluff associated…

Art by Empanda. Day two of the pre-E3 press conferences started with Square Enix early in the morning, with Ubisoft, the PC Gaming Show, and Sony playing back to back throughout the rest of the day. The Square Enix Conference…

Continuing on from our earlier coverage on E3 2018, Microsoft and Bethesda’s press conferences were full of big announcements. Both companies have made quite the splash this year, so let’s start by looking at… The Microsoft Press Conference This year,…

E3 2018 is here, at last! For gamers, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is the most wonderful time of the year. It is an annual event where industry professionals come together to celebrate gaming, and reveal all of the latest and…

Art by Empanda. Note: Though this isn’t strictly a review of the new God of War game, it does contain spoilers for it and the previous games in the series. Consider yourself warned! With its opening moments, God of War…

I picked up Assassinâ€™s Creed: Origins a few weeks ago, and originally intended for this article to be a review of the game, but the more I delved into the meat of the title, the more I felt drawn to…

Thereâ€™s something to be said for creating a behemoth. And whether Brendan Greene intended to or not, thatâ€™s what he got with Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Though accused by some of being derivative, and decried by others for being shallow, or…

Building a computer is an act of pure joy. It can take months to design the right machine: deliberating over minor differences between parts, finding the best prices, deciding when is the right time to pull the trigger. And once…

If 2016 was the year of the sequel, 2017 is the year of the loot box. Every developer seems keen on boarding the bandwagon. And, for better or worse, a slew of games featuring slightly-different-but-mostly-the-same forms of monetization have been…

All screenshots were taken on the PC at 2560×1440. PC hardware: i7-7700K, Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB RAM, 250 GB SSD, Windows 10. For years, Destiny has been making waves on consoles. The long-awaited successor to Bungieâ€™s Halo promised…